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2026-08-22 07:39:55 CEST

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@nprofile…6ljk
Constitution says no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Text

2026-08-22 02:38:59 CEST

Oooooh boy.
You know how people have started vandalizing #Flock #surveillance cameras?
Well, now we're seeing grand juries refusing to indict the vandals.
This sort of grand jury nullification is not a thing in the USA. If you're accused of a crime, your probability of being let off by the grand jury like this is basically 0%. And yet, here we are.
This is one of those moments in history where things get interesting.
https://futurism.com/future-society/grand-jury-ohio-flock-alpr-surveillance-felony-legal

2026-08-21 23:09:46 CEST

Whose bright idea was it for #MathML <mi> to italicize the identifier if and only if it's one character long? 🤦‍♂️
It's an identifier! It should always be italicized.

2026-08-21 07:15:01 CEST

#EFF explains exactly why #ZeroKnowledgeProof as #AgeVerification is not safe, and is even more dangerous than typical age-verification schemes in that, not only does it still invade the privacy of your home, it also vests power in a single company or government agency to ban you from all of society—to un-person you—whenever it pleases.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/zkps-arent-age-verification-silver-bullets
It's just another censorship/surveillance scheme, no better than any other and in some ways worse.
Complain to your representatives!

2026-08-20 17:10:37 CEST

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@nprofile…78e9
Is that the real reason? Reddit getting pressured by authoritarian governments (by which I mean basically all governments)?
@nprofile…7q7j

2026-08-17 19:55:10 CEST

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@nprofile…u5g7
Exporting an archive is hard, yeah, but you can do it only occasionally and search it over and over. You can also do it at night or something, when people aren't otherwise using the server.

2026-08-14 21:58:41 CEST

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@nprofile…kcq6
I don't think 3 years ago everyone was fully cognizant of how monumentally expensive it is to train and run generative AI.
People thought GAI would be something anyone could download and use on their own, not something that only works if a huge company buys up literally all of the silicon and stuffs it in a zillion-dollar data center with its own power plant.

2026-08-06 20:28:22 CEST

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@nprofile…qjgw
Yes, and that is an abomination. But those laws do not require the use of a proprietary device. You're still in control of what you reveal, when, and to who.
A proprietary device could be recording and reporting everything you say within range of its microphone, and you'd never know because the public can't see the code. As horrible as US social media age verification is, that's even worse.

2026-08-06 20:11:57 CEST

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@nprofile…qjgw
One of the main complaints about open-source phone operating systems is that banking apps don't work. I always found this confusing, because I just ignore the app and use the bank's website, but I learned recently that most Europeans aren't allowed to do that. The app is mandatory.
I too had been under the impression that privacy was a big deal in Europe. I've been repeatedly shocked and horrified over the past few months by revelations like this.

2026-08-04 06:48:54 CEST

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@nprofile…8d0p
I have my old Pixel 3a working, but I'm feeling rather naked running a phone this old…
I see that GrapheneOS no longer supports this phone for lack of firmware updates, but the GOS website is pretty vague, so I'm hoping you can fill in some details for me.
If I were to install LineageOS or something on this old 3a, what kind of attacks will I still be vulnerable to?
@nprofile…pkaf @nprofile…ulnl

2026-08-04 00:12:07 CEST

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@nprofile…8d0p
You said it draws the line at the lockscreen / home screen UI. Does that mean anti-rollback doesn't get incremented until *after* I unlock my phone following a reboot?
Because I never got that far. I left the phone to boot and do its thing, and when I later picked it up to check if it was ready to unlock, it was dead.
@nprofile…pkaf @nprofile…ulnl

2026-08-03 05:44:40 CEST

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Just for completeness' sake, I asked Google's AI to help troubleshoot, seeing as it's a Google phone. Same outcome: phone pronounced dead.
The bot says it's a hardware failure that the operating system upgrade exposed. Seems unlikely, but it's as good a guess as any.
I wonder if the upgrade installation process trashed the bootloader. It's my vague understanding that phones don't have actual ROM like PCs?
@nprofile…nd7w @nprofile…ulnl @nprofile…g3jv @nprofile…4p4l @nprofile…f747 @nprofile…g03q @nprofile…fush

2026-08-03 03:47:25 CEST

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@nprofile…uu72
Yeah, GOS does not support this model. It's an ultra-secure OS, not an old-phone OS.
@nprofile…nd7w @nprofile…ulnl @nprofile…g3jv @nprofile…4p4l @nprofile…f747 @nprofile…g03q @nprofile…fush

2026-08-03 03:45:11 CEST

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@nprofile…4p4l
LineageOS can't update major versions without reinstalling. 🫤 https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/sargo/upgrade/
@nprofile…nd7w @nprofile…ulnl @nprofile…g3jv @nprofile…f747 @nprofile…g03q @nprofile…fush

2026-08-03 03:36:44 CEST

Welp, I took my #Pixel 6 #phone to a repair shop, where it was pronounced dead.
Cause of death: fatal complications of a botched software update.
It will be missed. 🪦
I don't have the budget for a new phone right now, so this forces me to use my old Pixel 3a, which still works. But it's insecure af, so…what OS should I install on it? Preferably something that Just Works™ once installed.
@nprofile…nd7w @nprofile…ulnl @nprofile…g3jv @nprofile…4p4l @nprofile…f747 @nprofile…g03q @nprofile…fush

2026-08-02 23:04:29 CEST

Just tried to reboot my Pixel 6 into #Android 16, and…the #phone is stone-cold dead. Black screen, no response to buttons, power+volume doesn't work.
This is not acceptable!
When a PC operating system gets bricked, you can still boot into BIOS, enable booting from USB, and use a rescue/installer USB stick to repair or reinstall the OS.
Can we please have #phones that are similarly fail-safe? Not this unreliable nonsense? Thanks.
😡

2026-07-29 00:46:54 CEST

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@nprofile…kcq6
I dunno, some defaults are probably just the defaults because somebody was too busy to think about what the default should be.

2026-07-24 07:40:35 CEST

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@nprofile…pkaf
Ah. Drat.
…There is rustc but no Cargo? That's odd. Why would somebody go to all the trouble of porting rustc but not bother with Cargo?

2026-07-24 03:28:09 CEST

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@nprofile…2qq7
Relevant trope: Not Now, Kiddo
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotNowKiddo
@nprofile…eqsh

2026-07-20 20:57:21 CEST

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@nprofile…nd7w
We're not here to save the world. We're here to find people to chat with.
And I don't know about you, but I've found considerable success at that.

2026-07-17 07:37:14 CEST

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@nprofile…58vr
Indeed. Linux runs a separate daemon as root to do network configuration on behalf of local users. The user interface runs as an unprivileged process and sends commands to the daemon through a socket.
Back when BSD was young and RAM was measured in kilobytes, that design would have been infeasible, but it works fine on modern hardware.
@nprofile…uyv4

2026-07-17 05:32:09 CEST

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@nprofile…dacs
OpenRC uses shell scripts to start/stop services. Decades of unpleasant experience with Debian sysvinit has taught me the folly of such an approach.
Systemd gets this right: services are started with a single command (or a handful of them) written in a configuration file with a declarative and rigorously validated syntax, and stopped by init sending signals, not by a script.
The only other init I know of that gets this right is launchd from macOS.

2026-07-17 05:07:30 CEST

In light of all the #Linux drama lately, I thought I'd glance at what are the #FreeBSD equivalents to the various software I use.
Well, the network configuration story is very not good. You know how Linux has NetworkManager? On FreeBSD, if you want to configure network interfaces by GUI, you…run a GUI app as root via sudo.
https://github.com/ghostbsd/networkmgr/blob/324b90ce3775928692032f1f6cef9ed5ee097962/src/networkmgr.desktop
Which then shells out to sysrc to apply configuration settings:
https://github.com/ghostbsd/networkmgr/blob/324b90ce3775928692032f1f6cef9ed5ee097962/NetworkMgr/configuration.py#L611
You've got to be kidding me. That all's insecure as hell.

2026-07-16 17:05:36 CEST

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@nprofile…v2v2
What happened?

2026-07-14 17:08:20 CEST

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@nprofile…kk0v
Wow. What's the power draw when they're idle?

2026-07-14 16:59:20 CEST

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@nprofile…kk0v
Were they all idle at the time, or were they crunching some numbers?

2026-07-13 17:20:27 CEST

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Amusingly enough, two of those three women are named Melody. What were the odds?

2026-07-02 01:20:26 CEST

In light of the recent #Sony #PlayStation news, I'd like to remind everyone that GOG exists.
Every game there has no DRM. Once you buy one, no one can take it away from you. Not without breaking down your door and prying it from your cold dead hands, anyway.
https://www.gog.com/
#gaming

2026-06-30 21:32:14 CEST

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@nprofile…6cvp
Fedi servers can indeed run anywhere, but only in countries where they aren't illegal, and we seem to be rapidly running out of free countries in which to host them.
I desperately pray I am somehow mistaken about this…

2026-06-28 06:22:06 CEST

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@nprofile…sa29 @nprofile…7q7j
Curious. They're using the Latin alphabet to write a language that, unless I'm mistaken, predates their ancestors' contact with Europeans. Was it originally written in some other alphabet? Or was it only spoken and never written until the Europeans showed up and brought their writing system with them?

2026-06-05 23:26:09 CEST

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Welp, I rigged up this Maven build to use `cargo install` to install grass, a Sass compiler written in Rust, locally in this Java project.
Seems to work.
It takes a while to compile grass the first time…but subsequent runs are basically instant. Just what I've come to expect from Rust. 👍
The goal here is for Java code to emit some nice-looking HTML, I need to embed CSS in the HTML to do that, and I'd like to use Sass to compile the CSS.
Here's hoping I can banish node_modules!
#programming

2026-06-05 21:41:13 CEST

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That and I'll have to never use JavaScript on the server side ever again.
Only using ancient code to compile CSS is well and good, but only using ancient code in server-based applications is a horrible idea and will also result in hax.
Good thing my org doesn't use server-side JavaScript… 🙏

2026-05-27 07:27:37 CEST

Apparently people find it alarming that kids just starting school don't know how to use a book, and are trying to swipe its pages like a touchscreen.
https://futurism.com/future-society/children-schools-books-like-phones
Of all the problems that kids may or may not be having, *this* is the one they're going to put in the headline? You've got to be kidding me.
Give the kid a book and demonstrate how to turn the pages. This isn't complicated. Kid'll figure it out. Good grief.

2026-05-25 16:58:56 CEST

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@nprofile…jnzr
Good.
Another problem with these laws remains unsolved, however: they require *all* apps (except open source ones) to request information on the user's age, but do not specify what apps are supposed to do with that information.
For apps that are required by law to block children, it's obvious, but what about Microsoft Excel? Children aren't banned from using spreadsheets.

2026-05-21 04:37:52 CEST

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@nprofile…kk0v @nprofile…z0uk
Note: Hexen, Doom, Quake, Descent, and Duke Nukem 3D all have source ports for modern operating systems with fancy GPU renderers, mouselook, and in the case of Hexen and Doom, a whole entire bespoke programming language for use by modders.

2026-05-19 05:31:58 CEST

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@nprofile…rldd
If your device has a keyboard, you could use its arrow keys.

2026-05-11 10:01:52 CEST

I wonder what would happen if you put up an open VNC server that controls Windows 3.1 (presumably running in a VM).

2026-05-10 21:47:13 CEST

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@nprofile…yery
I keep them in an incredibly messy and structurally unsound drawer in what is otherwise a dresser, and strewn around some desks.
I ended up killing a perfectly good video card by treating it like this.
Sadly the SO will not allow me to procure more storage racks and furniture. 😢

2026-05-09 00:06:24 CEST

Yep, called it. Another zero-day local-root vulnerability in #Linux, and this time it's in the core kernel, not a module you can remove.
And this so-called #security researcher is apparently more interested in having a flashy website than in responsible disclosure.
https://ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html

2026-05-07 23:08:30 CEST

Oh good, another high-severity #Linux #security vulnerability that somebody botched the disclosure of, turning it into a high-severity zero-day.
Because #CopyFail wasn't bad enough. Now we've got #DirtyFrag too.
Can #cybersecurity people please stop botching vulnerability disclosure? Thanks.
https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag/blob/master/README.md
#security

2026-05-06 23:41:47 CEST

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@nprofile…8udl
HDDs are mechanical contraptions, yes, but they're some of the most precise mechanical contraptions ever made on Earth.
I've heard stories of people designing missile guidance systems who were shocked by how much more precise disk drives are.
It's like what you'd expect to see on an alien starship, if the aliens distrust solid-state tech and like machines with moving parts, but are still as technologically advanced as you'd expect aliens with starships to be.

2026-05-01 17:21:08 CEST

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@nprofile…dacs
Yeah, to enforce a security barrier. I don't want Windows to be able to read/write all the intimate personal files I keep on the Linux PC.

2026-04-30 18:41:43 CEST

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@nprofile…3k3g
Death is final. Being converted to energy and back again is not.
Although, in the presence of a device that can convert you to energy and back again, and rearrange you in the process, one wonders how exactly it's even *possible* to permanently die in Star Trek.
@nprofile…5dlp @nprofile…2uyx @nprofile…ujul

2026-04-29 22:44:33 CEST

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@nprofile…5dlp @nprofile…2uyx
Star Trek transporters canonically convert you from matter to energy and then reassemble you at the destination. Definitely not a kill-and-copy machine.
Nor is it detaching your soul (if in fact such a thing exists), or else your personality would change after your first transport.
@nprofile…ujul

2026-04-28 17:43:46 CEST

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I'm going to miss you all terribly. 😭🫂

2026-04-27 15:56:32 CEST

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@nprofile…8yrp
The closest I know of is mrustc. https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc It's a relatively simple Rust compiler written in C++.
It generally assumes your program is valid. In particular, it doesn't do borrow checking (although that is planned).
The main purpose of mrustc is to compile the regular Rust compiler on a machine where there is a C++ compiler but no Rust compiler.

2026-04-26 05:53:09 CEST

I'm in my 40s and still don't have any trouble setting up new devices. Jealous? 😏
https://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/gbjlx/you_dont_realize_until_it_is_too_late/
https://imgur.com/you-dont-realize-until-is-too-late-eJSuf
#Reddit #RageComic
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/468/961/870/344/579/original/7bf70a759d36d3a8.jpg

2026-04-25 09:28:31 CEST

It has come to my attention that, starting next year, new #cars will be required by law to refuse to start if a facial-recognition AI decides you're drunk or tired.
You've got to be kidding me.
Not even a fully-intelligent human can make that determination just by looking at you, let alone a machine.
Imagine if your only ride out of the wilderness won't start because the bot incorrectly thinks you're drunk. Or because there's no 5G signal out there.
This is going to get people killed.

2026-04-24 17:35:05 CEST

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@nprofile…5k2y
As for torturing and sickening people:
I was bullied out of school at the age of 12. After that, my only source of friendship and conversation was online. My main source of joy was tinkering with computers.
If I had been banned from computers and the Internet, as is now being proposed for children that age, I would have had nothing to do and no one but my parents to talk to.
*That* is torture. *That* would have made me sick. And that isn't being perpetrated by social media companies.

2026-04-24 01:33:01 CEST

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@nprofile…cslf
This is Java Swing with the X11 backend, so it implements popup menus the old-fashioned way. Wayland probably has some other, saner way of dismissing menus without grabbing the mouse like this, but that doesn't do me any good here.

2026-04-18 00:00:39 CEST

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The Rust compiler is SO SLOW digesting this giant match statement, though. Sigh.
Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time!

2026-04-17 23:50:00 CEST

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Interestingly, in my testing, the code to load the database in CSV format and generate this Rust code also runs in basically zero seconds.
That's testament to how incredibly fast modern #computers are. 11MB of CSV and my decade-old PC eats it for breakfast. My childhood 486 sure as hell couldn't do that!

2026-04-17 20:33:09 CEST

If La Forge and Ro are out of phase with normal matter and therefore can't interact with most of it, then how are they able to breathe? How are they still under air pressure? How are they still able to hear each other? Being in that state should have the same effect on them as being exposed to hard vacuum.
And how can they see each other? If normal photons don't interact with them, then they should be invisible even to each other.
This friggin' episode, man.
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG

2026-04-13 02:52:04 CEST

I've heard that there is an epidemic of illiteracy among kids these days.
Pardon my skepticism, but aren't kids these days also known for communicating primarily with text? I imagine it'd be pretty hard to write social media posts and SMS messages, as kids these days are wont to do, if you don't know your ABCs.

2026-04-10 20:37:32 CEST

My cat is a cat who cats because she is a cat.

2026-04-07 01:44:47 CEST

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@nprofile…dacs
Yeah, I can't see the flicker even in my peripheral vision.
Although I'm not sure if I would be able to directly see it. My peripheral vision can see 60Hz flicker from unrectified LED Christmas lights, but I don't think it can see PWM flicker.
But since running the big screen at 100% brightness didn't help the eye strain, I'm guessing flicker isn't the problem anyway.

2026-04-05 00:31:14 CEST

Wowzers.
I was just downloading some #Debian packages from http.us.debian.org, like I've always done, and I noticed it was going incredibly slowly.
Switched to deb.debian.org (which I gather is what all the cool kids these days are using) and now it's going as fast as my fiber connection can carry it.
deb.debian.org is hosted by Fastly, so that'd be why. Lots of money, lots of bandwidth.
Can't say I'm overly comfortable with a big tech company knowing which packages I install, though…

2026-04-04 01:43:56 CEST

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@nprofile…qynj
I already did. I know what's wrong with that eye. Treatment options are not great.
The condition is, at least, not expected to get any worse than it already is. So, as long as nothing else happens to my good eye, I can live with it.
Here's hoping nothing else happens to my good eye…

2026-04-02 23:07:58 CEST

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@nprofile…wek4
…don't look at explosions. 😎 💥

2026-03-26 06:35:47 CET

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Bear in mind, by the way, that Starfleet has at least one weapon that destroys planets in one shot: the Genesis device.
The Federation treaty that prohibits it from developing cloaking devices exists for a reason: a ship with a Genesis torpedo and a cloak could destroy any other power's homeworld at will with no warning.
That is terrifying.
If not for the treaty, every power in the galaxy would start a desperate all-out war against the Federation to stop it from doing that.
#StarTrek

2026-03-16 18:02:33 CET

🫳🐈

2026-03-12 16:45:11 CET

Khamja goon: “We don't need no dreamy-eyed prat looking down his nose at us.”
Bruh, that “dreamy-eyed prat” is Luso Clemens! Kid just got done defeating a giant alien hand monster and it wasn't even close. He'll kick your ass 13 different ways before you remember to draw your blade.
#FinalFantasy #FFTA2

2026-03-10 07:06:53 CET

I ❤️ #Debian.
That is all. Carry on.

2026-03-06 22:12:43 CET

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@nprofile…ayqg
Don't give them ideas!

2026-03-06 19:38:00 CET

Saw an announcement that #SDF, the instance I'm on, is going to be migrating to the new Mastodon version on new hardware with a new database.
I'm glad to hear that! I was getting rather nervous about my instance still running #Mastodon 4.1 and frequently getting bogged down.
A lot can go wrong in a big migration like that, though! So I wish @nprofile…s0wa admins the best of luck. 🤞 (And I'd better grab backups of my data on here, just in case.)

2026-03-06 09:10:16 CET

Installing #Debian on a normal computer: write the installer image on a USB flash drive, then boot from it.
Installing Debian on a #RISCV laptop: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/FrameWork/Laptop13/DeepComputing_RISC-V_V1
You have to build stuff from source and even download some weird SDK in order to build some weird firmware!
Hardware vendors: can you f**king not? #UEFI and ACPI and whatnot exist for a reason. Implement them. OS vendors should not have to make a separate OS image for every individual computer model. This is not the 1970s. 🤬

2026-03-05 21:16:35 CET

The existence of #BorgBackup implies the existence of Federation Data Loss.
#StarTrek #backup #shitpost

2026-03-04 20:23:27 CET

Y'know what, people give Deanna Troi a lot of 💩 for crashing the Enterprise, but
1. the impulse engines were cooked,
2. the inertial dampeners, if they're still even functioning, aren't gonna help much when you hit the ground that hard, and
3. if not for her slowing the ship's descent and belly-landing it like she did, the entire crew would've been turned into grease stains on what's left of the bulkheads.
She did good.
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekGenerations

2026-03-03 23:10:00 CET

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I suppose you could try hitting it from behind with Guided Missiles as well. I haven't tried this, but (most?) robots will completely ignore Guided Missiles coming at them, so in theory you just have to steer them into its tailpipe.
It'd take a lot of patience, though. You can only guide one missile at a time. I also don't know if even a full load of 40 of these missiles would be enough to destroy the big bot.

2026-03-03 23:05:31 CET

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The final boss of this game is hard too.
It has Earthshaker Missiles (which hit the wall behind you and then turn into a *swarm* of Mega Missiles)…can only be damaged from behind…and obviously turns to face you whenever possible so you can't harm it.
Yikes.
Its Achilles' heel is that you can do the same thing: shoot Smart and Earthshaker Missiles at the wall behind it so they hit it from behind.

2026-03-03 22:59:51 CET

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Oh, and unlike the first game's final boss, these two are immune to energy weapons, including the Smart Missile and Smart Mine. Only impact and explosions will damage them.
Hope you've got some ammo, or it's game over, no matter how good you are at dodging incoming missiles.

2026-03-03 22:48:38 CET

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The Brimspark boss isn't so bad if you happen to be cloaked so its Mega missiles can't track you, but if you're not cloaked, your only choice is to take a pot shot at it and then run for your life through a door or behind a wall to get away from its missiles.
If even one of the missiles hits you, you're cooked, and they're homing (as usual for Mega missiles).
At least finding the exit is straightforward, but still, good luck.

2026-03-03 22:44:19 CET

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With the Limefrost boss, you pretty much just have to take pot shots at it around the corners of the boss room entryway until it finally blows up, then make a mad dash for the exit…which is on the other side of the boss room…with a bizarre twisted maze of dead ends in the way (unless you happen to bump into the secret door)…and only ~30 seconds to navigate it.
Good luck.

2026-03-03 22:38:48 CET

Well, after the insane bosses of Brimspark (which can instamurder you with Mega missiles and spams them with abandon) and Limefrost Spiral (whose Flash missiles and Omega cannon blind you and rapidly strip your shields), the boss of Baloris Prime is oddly…easy.
It has Mercury missiles and generates smart blobs when hit, but all of those are easily avoided with the cloaking devices that its room is full of.
Just make sure you first eliminate all the beefy robots guarding the exit…
#Descent

2026-03-03 20:19:37 CET

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@nprofile…zxj6
Early '90s too. Doom used fixed-point in 1993. Quake was one of the first high-performance video games to use floating-point math.
Ironically, the much *much* newer Rust language makes it a great deal easier to use fixed-point math if you want…long after everybody stopped using fixed-point math.
I'm vaguely under the impression that fixed-point math is still faster, though, and it's also preferable for financial calculations, so 🤷‍♂️.
@nprofile…jf3d

2026-03-03 19:15:28 CET

#Gamedev: “Cast a light with the following direction, cone angle, brightness, etc.”
Modern game engines: “Sure thing, boss!”
'90s game engines: “VECTORMATHULHU DEMANDS A SACRIFICE. 🦑”
#retrogaming #retrocomputing

2026-03-03 19:02:15 CET

The Guide-Bot and the Thief-Bot are the only robots that can pathfind to any location in the mine. They both can open keyed and hidden doors…but the Guide-Bot will pretend that it can't if you order it to find something on the other side of such a door!
They're in cahoots, I tell you! Cahoots!
#Descent

2026-03-03 17:21:02 CET

Calendar: it is now March.
Mastodon: vintage Macs, vintage Macs everywhere.

2026-03-02 23:16:48 CET

They're waiting for you, Gordon…in the production chamber.
#HalfLife #programming #IT #shitpost

2026-03-01 23:48:20 CET

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@nprofile…y7th
I had one of these! Ended up running Linux on it.

2026-03-01 05:51:41 CET

OH: “Get your caulk out of my mouth.”

2026-03-01 00:34:13 CET

Once, when I was a little kid, a sitcom character shouted, “I'm a fraud!”
Being a little kid, I wasn't familiar with that word, so I thought she was saying “I'm a frog” and was very confused. 🐸

2026-03-01 00:13:46 CET

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@nprofile…9wh6
Yes, exactly. Hard wrapping fits the viewport of the author, not the reader.
I use tabs for indentation for the same reason: it is not my place to dictate the reader's indent-width needs and preferences.

2026-03-01 00:10:59 CET

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@nprofile…9wh6
This is because some people unfortunately hard-wrap their text at 80 columns or whatever.
This was necessary in the 1980s when terminals would soft-wrap characters rather than words, but in 2026 it is unnecessary and only creates problems.
Nonetheless, people still do it for some reason (and some editors even encourage it), so Markdown compensates by eating newlines.
Note that Markdown will not eat a newline if there are two spaces before it.

2026-02-28 23:17:53 CET

Got a random craving for apple juice immediately *after* getting home from the store. 🤦‍♂️

2026-02-28 23:09:47 CET

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@nprofile…nuu0
Resistance is futile. Your desktop will be assimilated.

2026-02-28 21:23:53 CET

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@nprofile…hnt7
Nah, just mildly annoying. But still! Web devs need to stop doing that.

2026-02-28 21:19:37 CET

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@nprofile…s4vw
Debian is pretty slow to install updates on a hard disk drive…but it isn't 8-hours slow.

2026-02-28 21:16:41 CET

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@nprofile…hnt7
Yep, that's how rain water ends up in aquifers.
But all those fun liquid toxins in some consumer products can seep through rock just as easily… ☠️

2026-02-28 21:15:18 CET

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@nprofile…shsc
Do you have a website with a searchable list of all of your work?

2026-02-28 21:10:47 CET

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@nprofile…hnt7
If you bury the trash in a mine shaft, there's nothing stopping all the toxic chemicals from leaching into ground water.
There are also other processes happening in landfill management that might not work if it's a mine shaft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill

2026-02-28 20:50:25 CET

If #webDesign people could please stop overriding the #hyperlink style to remove the underline, that'd be great. Great for #accessibility, to be precise.
Removing the underline makes hyperlinks hard to see, and I'm not even blind! I just saw a site where links are a deep reddish color, barely distinguishable from the black text. No underline. No other markings. Utter madness.
#a11y #webdev

2026-02-28 20:44:21 CET

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@nprofile…vs6a
So, like '90s hacker movies?

2026-02-28 00:48:16 CET

I just accidentally left my laptop on, in sleep mode, in its bag, for 4 days. 😬 (At least, that's what `uptime` says.)
Battery's down to 48%. I'm lucky I caught it before the battery drained completely!

2026-02-26 22:29:45 CET

I love pattern matching SO MUCH. Thank goodness #Java has it now.
#programming

2026-02-26 17:31:43 CET

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@nprofile…9xhj
He's good at keeping a lid on the situation.

2026-02-26 17:16:01 CET

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@nprofile…7yuj
It certainly does look cool and nerdy, though.
And built-in Ethernet! Easily-swappable 18650 batteries! I think I might be in love! 🥰 Wish I could afford one…

2026-02-25 23:35:32 CET

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@nprofile…m794
The fact that you can see the video frames like this demonstrates that there's no #video #compression.
That was one of the major downfalls of LD and #CED. #DVD did have compression, which greatly increased how many minutes of video would fit on a disc, making it the first video disc format competitive with #tape.

2026-02-25 19:17:03 CET

Oh no. Endlessly respawning thief-bots. Every pilot's worst nightmare.
Thankfully I was able to find and destroy that place's reactor. This abomination will menace the galaxy no more.
#Descent #gaming #retrogaming

2026-02-25 18:08:38 CET

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@nprofile…y4qv
Sonar isn't even good for parking sensors, if the cars I've seen with that feature are any clue. Terribly inaccurate to the point of near uselessness. Lidar is actually good.
@nprofile…z3nu